This book is a select collection of edited papers from the International Conference on Security of Information and Networks (SIN 2007) on the main theme of Information Assurance, Security, and Public Policy. SIN 2007 was hosted by the Eastern Mediterranean University in Gazimagusa, North Cyprus and co-organized by the Istanbul Technical University, Turkey. While SIN 2007 covered all areas of information and network security, the papers included here focused on the following topics:
- cryptology: design and analysis of cryptographic algorithms, hardware and software implementations of cryptographic algorithms, and steganography;
- network security: authentication, authorization and access control, privacy, intrusion detection, grid security, and mobile and personal area networks;
- IT governance: information security management systems, risk and threat analysis, and information security policies.
They represent an interesting mix of innovative academic research and experience reports from practitioners. This is further complemented by a number of invited papers providing excellent overviews:
- Elisabeth Oswald, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK: Power Analysis Attack: A Very Brief Introduction;
- Marc Joye, Thomson R&D, France: On White-Box Cryptography;
- Bart Preneel, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven, Belgium: Research Challenges in Cryptology;
- Mehmet Ufuk Caglayan, Bogazici University, Turkey: Secure Routing in Ad Hoc Networks and Model Checking.
The papers are organized in a logical sequence covering Ciphers; Mobile Agents & Networks; Access Control and Security Assurance; Attacks, Intrusion Detection, and Security Recommendations; and, Security Software, Performance, and Experience.
Internet Technology Research Center (President), and Dept. of Computer Engineering, Eastern Mediterranean University, Gazimagusa, North Cyprus.
e-mail: Atilla.Elci@emu.edu.tr; home site: cmpe.emu.edu.tr/aelci.
Dr. Atilla Elci received M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees at Purdue University in Computer Sciences with high honors citation. He was a faculty member in the Dept. of Computer Sciences & Engineering in Middle East Technical Univ., Turkey, during 1976- 1985. He served in the positions of Chairman (2 years), Asst. Chairman (4 years), and Manager of the University Computer Center (3 years) besides teaching. He was head of Systems and Languages Major for 5 years. He became Associate Professor in Software major in 1983. From 1985 till 1997, he was consultant to the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), serving in computerization development projects of UNDP. He held numerous positions as chief technical adviser, senior expert, project designer and project manager in more than 20 countries in five continents. Subsequently he founded and ran his own company in Turkey offering IT and communications solutions (1998-2003). In 2001 he established the Department of Computer Engineering in Haliç University, Istanbul, serving as its Chairman till 2003. He is currently with the Department of Computer Engineering, and the President of the Internet Technologies Research Center, Eastern Mediterranean University, North Cyprus. Dr. Elçi has extensive experience in semantic Web, Web technology, multi-agent systems, semantic robotics, Internet, systems and languages, software engineering, education and training, and information systems in the telecoms agencies. He published over 100 papers, edited several proceedings, a series of 17 computer-based coursewares, designed several UNDP/ITU development projects in telecoms computerization, and organized several conferences, such as ESAS 2006 & 2007 and SIN 2007. Dr. Elci is a member of ACM, IEEE, IEEE CS, and Turkish Informatics Association.